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(, Sun 1 Apr 2001, 1:00)
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As for Steam, Source and gaming on Macs in general, I've been using Bootcamp and a Windows partition for the last four years (mainly for Source games) so I'm ecstatic about the news. Not only do we get native ports of some of the best games of all time, we also get continued support from one of the best games companies of all time. If it was anyone but Valve I'd still be happy, but the amount of work and innovation that Valve put into gaming as a whole means that this is the best possible outcome for us. The extra boost it'll give to OpenGL and games on Linux is good news too.
As for specifics about Source games / games on Macs, I haven't had any problems. TF2, L4D/2 and HL all work well, and while they may not be as pretty as on a dedicated gaming rig, they're still nice enough to look at and more importantly run well.
It's worth nothing that there are plenty of other (non Valve) games with Mac versions are already available on Steam, so there should be a nice range come launch: savygamer.co.uk/2010/03/03/here-is-a-list-of-games-currently-on-steam-that-already-have-a-native-mac-port-in-existence/
(, Wed 10 Mar 2010, 14:27, 1 reply, 16 years ago)
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